Sam loooooooooooooooves to get the mail. She adores it. She especially loves it if there's mail for her, which is a feeling I can remember before I moved into my first apartment.
Normally, Daddy picks her and Noah up from the sitter's house and takes them home, and then he and Sam get the mail. But on Wednesday, I picked the kiddos up because my husband had 10-hour training in Lebanon and then a three-hour night class in Harrisburg (yeah, so glad I wasn't him yesterday).
So when we got home, Sam and I walked to the mailbox to get the mail. I helped her yank it open (our mailbox is a little dented thanks to kids playing mailbox baseball along our road), and she stared expectantly inside.
It was empty.
Nada. Nothing.
"Oh, Mom, there's no mail," she whined, her voice echoing back at her from the tube.
"Sorry, sweetie," I said, closing it up. "But that's a good thing for Mommy, because it means I didn't get any bills to pay, so I don't have to send money to anyone today."
"Yeah," she grumbled, trudging back toward the steps.
I was just about to pick Noah up in his car seat and carry him up to the porch when Sam gasped and yelled, "Momma!"
"What?" I said, spinning around to look at her and assuming she had just seen a hairy spider that I probably didn't want to get near.
"Do you know what that means? If there's no bills?" she asked, her voice rising and her enormous eyes getting bigger by the second.
"No, what?"
"It means you don't have to go to work!"
She was practically squealing with glee.
Remember the post when I said she wasn't getting this why-I-go-to-work thing? Guess that's gotten clearer in her mind.
I hated to burst her bubble of excitement, but I had to: "Just because we didn't get any bills today doesn't mean we won't get a bunch of bills tomorrow," I explained. "So I still have to go to work so that we have money to pay those."
My friend Joan Concilio, of the Only in York County blog fame, and I decided that we'd like to be able to go to work only on the days we get bills in the mail.
I'd particularly like this because I pay most of my bills online ...
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